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News to expect in the coming days and weeks:– Greece defaults
– Germany protects German banks but other countries cannot do the same thus quickly provoking multiple sovereign defaults and or bank failures, all of which may easily lead to a payments crisis in the global banking system. Derivatives are particularly at risk in terms of operation and execution.
– The Euro falls in value especially against the US dollar
– The Germans announce they are re-introducing the Deutschmark. They have already ordered the new currency and asked that the printers hurry up.
– The Euro falls even more on any news that Germany is withdrawing from the Euro. [bron]

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One problem is that the CERN result busts the apparent speed limit of neutrinos seen when radiation from a supernova explosion reached Earth in February 1987.

Supernovae are exploding stars that are so bright they can briefly outshine their host galaxies. However, most of their energy actually streams out as neutrinos. Because neutrinos scarcely interact with matter, they should escape an exploding star almost immediately, while photons of light will take about 3 hours to get out. And in 1987, trillions of neutrinos arrived 3 hours before the dying star’s light caught up, just as physicists would have expected.

The recent claim of a much higher neutrino speed just doesn’t fit with this earlier measurement. “If neutrinos were that much faster than light, they would have arrived [from the supernova] five years sooner, which is crazy,” says Sher. “They didn’t. The supernova contradicts this [new finding] by huge factors.”

It’s possible that the neutrinos that sped to the Italian mine were a different type of neutrino from the ones streaming from the supernova, or had a different energy. Either of those could explain the difference, Sher admits. “But it’s quite unlikely.” [bron]

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“We would like to see the politicians executed,” says Maria, not smiling as she delivers the joke. “Most people are saying this: politicians deserve capital punishment – at the Greek equivalent of Traitors’ Gate. It would be a nice time for politicians to be heroes, to stand up and defend the people. But they’re not.”

“We can’t watch the television news any more,” says Dmitris, shaking his head. “If you watch it, with the constant uncertainty, it can make your psychology very low. It’s like a nightmare we can’t wake up from. Perhaps it’s fortunate that we’ve had to cancel our cable TV subscription. I don’t trust the media any more: I get all my news from the internet.” [bron]